Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Orange Mound neighborhood, intersection of Airways Boulevard and Lamar Avenue, Memphis, TN, 2009. These numbers conflict with the stated goals of present-day development efforts to create a niche for Memphis...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...the group and protégés like Project Pat, Three 6 Mafia came to be the most successful Memphis rap enterprise during this decade. Promotional image for Da Unbreakables by Three 6...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...Gallery in San Francisco. In 2006 a limited-edition book of her Memphis photographs was sold at Burke's Book Store. 2008 finds Amie working on the photo-per-day "Memphis Project 366," in...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Riedel, 2020. View interactive version. Midtown received an equal measure of detail, including specific landmarks like "Sunnyland Furniture" at Main and Tuam (also illustrated in the map above).36Suniland Furniture was...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...(Boston: Beacon, 1995); and Michael Honey, Black Labor and Southern Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1993). Contestations over historical commemoration, focused recently on the National Civil...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...Situation as I Found It," Appleton's Magazine 9, no. 6 (June 1907): 650; Mike Trudics, "Life Story of a Hungarian Peon," in Holt Hamilton, ed., The Life Stories of Undistinguished...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...United States, vol. 1, Cotton Textile Industry, Senate Document no. 645, 61st Cong., 2nd sess. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1910, 29. This shift had an adverse impact on organizing...
Encountering COVID
...weeks takes me into early April. In January, I had just gotten back from a wonderful vacation in Grand Cayman and I had told everybody all over holiday break how...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Move 500 Share-Croppers into Swamp Area," Post-Dispatch, January 16, 1939; "Sheriff Disarms Sharecroppers Near New Madrid," Post-Dispatch, January 17, 1939; FDR to Wallace, January 19, 1939, Folder "Tenant Farming, 1939-1944,"...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...died in the civil justice subcommittee in March 2020. There’s no statewide ban on conversion therapy and twenty seven percent of LGBT Floridians live below the poverty line. The seesaw...